The lawsuit caps years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s wildly popular suite of devices and services, which have fueled its growth into a nearly $3 trillion public company.
The department joined 16 states and the District of Columbia to file a significant challenge to the reach and influence of Apple, arguing in an 88-page lawsuit that the company had violated antitrust laws with practices that were intended to keep customers reliant on their iPhones and less likely to switch to a competing device. The tech giant prevented other companies from offering applications that compete with Apple products like its digital wallet, which could diminish the value of the iPhone, and hurts consumers and smaller companies that compete with it, the government said.
“We need you to stop making a good product forcing your customers to only use your version so your customers can finally move away from it.”
Fixed it. Non-apple watches, for instance, can’t use GPS from an iPhone or cause it to emit sound to local lost phones, despite being previously able to, demonstrating no technical limitations just a walled-garden limitation
Thats not true. There are still phones out there being actively used that have been end of life for years now. There is no way to corral those insecure devices.
You were already provided with examples in this comment thread:
Non-apple watches, for instance, can’t use GPS from an iPhone or cause it to emit sound to local lost phones, despite being previously able to, demonstrating no technical limitations just a walled-garden limitation
Yeah come to think of it that title is poorly written
Yea the specific issue is
so that’s a good thing :)
“We need you to stop making a good product so your customers can finally move away from it.”
Just like how Windows Explorer was stopped because it was such a good product?
“We need you to stop
making a good productforcing your customers to only use your version so your customers can finally move away from it.” Fixed it. Non-apple watches, for instance, can’t use GPS from an iPhone or cause it to emit sound to local lost phones, despite being previously able to, demonstrating no technical limitations just a walled-garden limitationDo you happen to know why they removed that feature?
Is there an answer to that question that would make these practices reasonable? (while also being plausibly true)
Security.
In what way is a device you’ve purchase and paired with your phone, requesting that the phone it’s paired to make a noise; a security flaw/issue?
Tracking purposes, perhaps.
How would that actually help security?
Thats why I’m asking if they know why the feature was removed so I can look up the specifics.
To keep their walled garden.
The officially given reason probably was “sEcUriTy”
Security is the main reason you should get an iPhone, tbh.
Not really, pretty much every brand has had security issues and they all patch them fairly quickly
Thats not true. There are still phones out there being actively used that have been end of life for years now. There is no way to corral those insecure devices.
The quality isn’t really the issue, it’s when the company
This issue isn’t limited to Apple, but Apple is the well known example for locking people into an ecosystem whether they like it or not
Do you have an example?
Another big example is any web-browser that isn’t safari. That should be changing soon/recently (see here https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/25/24050478/apple-ios-17-4-browser-engines-eu) but that’s only because Apple was forced to.
You were already provided with examples in this comment thread:
Which manufacturers and which products?
Literally everything that’s not manufactured and sold by Apple.